The Need for an Adaptive Sociotechnical Model for Managing Mental Health in a Pandemic

Braden Tabisula, Chinazunwa Uwaoma
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Abstract

Many people experienced an increase in mental health distress due to the isolation requirements arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic and the resulting isolation protocols to control the spread of the virus no doubt, sparked researchers' interest in seeking solutions to address the impact on people's mental health in different situations. One of such solutions is the use of technologies to cope with mental health challenges. Though a plethora of technology exists for communication and socialization with several others proposed to deal with mental health breakdown during the pandemic, there is no ‘one-size fits all’ technology that has been identified to address every individual's distress level and coping strategy. This study thus, examines the existing technologies that have been used by people to manage their mental health distress, and proposes a sociotechnical model that can be used to identify current technologies and the effectiveness of such technologies in addressing an individual's mental health distress and symptoms.
需要一个适应性的社会技术模型来管理流行病中的心理健康
由于COVID-19大流行产生的隔离要求,许多人的心理健康困扰有所增加。大流行和由此产生的控制病毒传播的隔离方案无疑激发了研究人员寻求解决方案的兴趣,以解决不同情况下对人们心理健康的影响。其中一个解决方案是利用技术来应对心理健康挑战。尽管存在过多的技术用于与其他几种技术进行沟通和社交,以应对大流行期间的精神健康崩溃,但没有一种“一刀切”的技术已被确定用于解决每个人的痛苦程度和应对策略。因此,本研究考察了人们用于管理其心理健康困扰的现有技术,并提出了一个社会技术模型,该模型可用于识别当前技术以及此类技术在解决个人心理健康困扰和症状方面的有效性。
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